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‘You shall heare me speake’: The Architecture of Feigned Soliloquy in Hamlet’s Gallery
Full text linkIn the first quarto of Hamlet (Q1)—popularly deemed the 'bad quarto'—we are told that Hamlet frequents a room at Elsinore Castle called the gallery. In fact, he meets Ofelia in the gallery twice: in the unstaged “ungartered” scene and again in the 'To be, or not to be' scene. Both times their intimacy is betrayed. The first time, Ofelia tells all, and the second time, Claudius and Corambis (Q1’s Polonius) eavesdrop. In the second quarto (Q2) and the first folio (F), however, all references to the gallery are absent. It follows that Hamlet’s gallery has not garnered much critical attention. After all, it can easily be taken for a throwaway reference, swallowed up by the ever-looming dramaturgical convention of the 'unlocalized stage'. But what would happen if we were to take this gallery setting seriously? Attending to the architectural specificity found in playscripts like Hamlet Q1 can help illuminate the social resonances of the spaces these characters inhabit, revealing otherwise unspoken motivations and understandings. In turn, I contend that gallery settings, following their real-life correlatives in early modern great homes, inspired a new dramaturgical technique—the feigned soliloquy. Recovering the social resonances of the gallery can help us better understand a tension central to Hamlet, which is also a tension central to early modernity: the struggle to outwardly represent one’s inner self—'that within which passeth show'—and the limits of accessing another person’s mind
Blockchain Adoption Among SMEs in Morocco: A qualitative study
Full text linkBlockchain technology is considered a breakthrough and innovative solution to many business related problems and across various economic sectors such as finance, supply chain, retail, health care, tourisBlockm and travel industry, and education. For Small and Medium Enterprises, in particular, blockchain technology adoption could facilitate their digitalization initiatives, reduce transaction and financing costs, and help them access new international markets. In this qualitative exploratory study, the goal was to understand the factors that influence SMEs adoption of blockchain technology in Morocco. Face to face interviews were conducted with six professionals from various sectors of the economy. The Technology-organization-environment framework was used as the theoretical framework of the study. Findings revealed that SMEs intention to adopt blockchain is influenced by perceived benefits, size, culture, technological capabilities, government support, and government regulations. Recommendations for future research included the use of a mixed method approach in data collection and analysis and the integration of other theoretical frameworks in the study of blockchain adoption in Morocco
Cryptocurrency and Innovation: The Relationship with Technology in Light of Risk Aversion and Market Sentiment.
No full textThe paper performs a (Panel) Moderated Regression, Causality and Cointegration (complete version) test on the relationship between the exchange rate of major selected cryptocurrencies vs. major fiat currencies, and selected technology indices of various geographic areas and economic groups in the world, representative of different countries or areas in the world (Europe) and for different levels of market capitalization. The dataset allows to focus on the comparison pre- and post-Covid19 (complete version), testing the relationship in those two different time frames. The novelty of the study is the use of risk aversion and VIX volatility index (market sentiment) as control variables. Various indices of risk aversion have been developed, presenting different levels of trade-off in terms of availability (ease of calculation) and effectiveness. A good candidate seems to be the Global Risk Appetite Index (GRAI) by Kumar and Persaud (2002). As for the VIX index, it has been widely used as a proxy of market sentiment, but rarely applied to the understanding of currency trends (especially cryptocurrency). Our expectation is to observe some significant moderation effect for some of the indicators considered, in general and when observing the data for different sub-periods. with investors probably trying to hedge equity investments and diversify their portfolios differently, with risk aversion and VIX index to be a driving factor of those choices. We also expect results to be confirmed by the Causality and Cointegration (complete version) test. The paper aims to contribute to the Fintech literature and shed light on the possibilities of diversification offered by tech-related portfolios. As a corollary, it aims to determine how the effect of risk aversion and general market risk sentiment drives those choices.
Keywords: Cryptocurrency; Technology Index; Risk Appetite; Market Sentiment; Causality; Cointegration; Panel Regression
Hero and Leander and Shakespeare’s Rival Poet Sonnets
Full text linkIn sonnet 86 Shakespeare claims to have been dumbstruck when his muse was appropriated by a rival poet: ‘But when your countenance filled up his line,/ Then lacked I matter. That enfeebled mine.’ Had his own ardent response to the beautiful youth of the sonnets been eclipsed? Was he no longer the worthiest recipient of his friend and patron’s favour? Biographically minded interpreters often cite sonnet 86 in attempts to name Shakespeare’s formidable rival, but no-one has convincingly identified the lines of verse to which he refers in its closing couplet. In this essay I argue that Shakespeare has specific passages in mind, hymns to male beauty from George Chapman’s continuation of Christopher Marlowe’s Hero and Leander. Building on advances in dating and contextualising the sonnets, I show how the Chapman passages may be linked to Shakespeare’s patron, the Earl of Southampton – Henry Petowe’s all-but-ignored alternative continuation of Hero and Leander is of consequence here – and suggest why they might have shaken Shakespeare so badly. As well as being of biographical consequence, my analysis sheds new light on politics and patronage in the 1590s, the cultural significance of the Elizabethan minor epic, and the wellsprings of poetic inspiration and insecurity
Practitioner research and learning and teaching
Full text linkThe Learning & Teaching and Practitioner Research Stream focuses on sharing and debating practitioner-research from the perspective of:Practitioners who worked and researched to bring about change in national and international work organizations of all sectors, sizes and types;andPractitioners in HE focusing on developing their own and organizational practice in learning and teaching
Dido American Style: Teaching Rhetorical Tropes for Fun and Profit
Full text linkThrough this paper I aim to help show students, from whatever background they bring to class, how to read Marlowe through his use of particular figures and mannerisms of speech, and, equally as important, I want to foreground the thesis that learning the complexities of the gilded language of the Early Moderns can help students understand the rhetorical challenges they face today in the realms of politics, advertising, and daily concourse. I want to reintroduce to the discipline and introduce to the students at hand Marlowe’s brilliant rhetoric and the rich and complex figures of speech he uses. For students, having a grasp on Marlowe’s language facilitates their development as sharper decoders of our own linguistic productions here in America and beyond
"Marks of their origin": Using Dido, Queen of Carthage to Think Critically about National Origin Myths at Northumbria University (UK)
Full text linkThis paper describes an approach to teaching Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nashe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage as part of an optional undergraduate (final year) English literature module in the UK. The session in focus for this paper is one 3-hour workshop-seminar on Marlowe’s Dido, which is read in relation to mythic origins – a term used to introduce the origin story as a political concept. The work students complete on this play is designed to not only strengthen their understanding of how origins stories can be politically useful, but also for the capacity of drama and its modern readers, to question them
Into the Green Suit: A Caricature of Gentrification in Munday and Chettle’s Huntington Plays
Full text linkAnthony Munday’s Robin Hood plays – co-authored by Henry Chettle – are almost univocally reduced to the ‘gentrification’ of Robin Hood and, consequently, accused of conservative complicity in stripping the legend of its radical potential. However, close readings of The Downfall of Robert, the Earl of Huntington and its sequel The Death of the aforementioned reveal that there is much more to the plays than its detractors allow for. While neither The Downfall nor The Death can be counted unmitigated triumphs in terms of dramatic structure, they are notable for high levels of theatrical self-awareness: far from naturalizing an aristocratic Robin, they make the point that one can play Robin Hood but never be him; they also deliberately create moments of farce which subvert the ostensible moral of the plays and in general reflect negatively on the potential for political and personal betterment, presenting characters bogged down by selfishness, lust, and lethargy. In the following, I hope to demonstrate that, contrary to expectation, Munday and Chettle’s plays neither historicize, nor naturalize, nor yet aggrandize the character. Instead, they employ meta-theatrical devices, humor, farce, and unsuspected cynicism to undermine these very tendencies